HARRISBURG — Charting a dramatic new course, Gov. Tom Wolf proposes sweeping changes today in the way the state pays for public education and taxes individuals and businesses during his first state budget address.…

A great-niece of Andy Warhol is making Uncle Andy: The Andy Warhol Family Film, a feature-length documentary that’s now in production and seeking funding via Kickstarter. Abby Warhola, a Pittsburgh-based photographer and filmmaker, has teamed with local artist Jesse...…

With the March 2 release of its new Financial Responsibility Report, PNC Bank tightened its restrictions on funding mountaintop-removal mining projects. Mountain-top removal (MTR) is a form of strip-mining practiced in West Virginia and elsewhere. The process lops off the tops of mountains to…

Additional early dismissals have been announced by local schools.
A representative from North Rome Christian School reported that they will be dismissing at 12:30 p.m.
And according to the Wyalusing Area School District website, the schools will dismiss two hours early today, activity buses will…

Perkasie >> Perkasie Borough Council voted to approve a bid for a new traffic light actuation system at the intersection of Walnut Street and Constitution Avenue from Signal Services Inc. for $9,904 on Monday evening.…

Ambler >> How does one go from discussing “lumpy” turtle feet, to lizards that walk on water, to the surprisingly complex origins of the Batman comic book series, all in the span of 20 minutes? Stop by an elementary school on Read Across America Day…

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent destroyed his career over $750 after stealing the cash from several deportees, Philadelphia prosecutors said.Photo Credit: Philadelphia District Attorney's Office…

Kalam Wesley McLain, 28, was arrested Monday in Cumberland County after state police said he deliberately drove a stolen car into a state police vehicle during a high-speed chase that reached speeds of roughly 100 mph.…

Gov. Tom Wolf's budget proposes a 20% increase in the state's personal income tax, from 3.07% to 3.7%, effective July 1; and a 10% boost in the state's sales tax, from 6% to 6.6%, effective Jan. 1, 2016.…

Pennsylvania's Department of Corrections and State Police are getting a financial bump in Fiscal Year 2015-2016 with a total allocation of $3.5 billion, an increase of about $210 million over last year.…

School districts are salivating over Gov. Tom Wolf's proposed $400 million increase in funding for basic education, which would bring the total to a new high-water mark of $6.1 billion. His plan includes increases for special education and early learning as well.…

Overall, Wolf's education department budget reflects $9.7 billion in spending on preschool through grade 12 education. But once the state's contribution to the state employees' pension fund and funding for a property tax relief are factored it, it brings the total education spend to a…

HARRISBURG – Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane today
announced the five most common types of scams reported to the Attorney
General’s Bureau of Consumer Protection in 2014. The Bureau received more than
124,000 consumer-related inquiries in 2014. Bas…

HARRISBURG – Attorney
General Kathleen G. Kane today announced the arrest of two Pennsylvania men on
unrelated charges of child pornography. The latest arrests occurred
over the past week in Armstrong and Beaver Counties. The defendants are: Jerami…

HARRISBURG – Attorney
General Kathleen G. Kane today announced that her office’s Bureau of Consumer
Protection will host several consumer education events as part of National
Consumer Protection Week (NCPW) next week. NCPW is a nationwide
campaign o…

HARRISBURG - Attorney
General Kathleen G. Kane today announced charges against a Uniontown podiatrist
and six others in a prescription drug scheme in which the doctor wrote
prescriptions for powerful narcotics that he would share or split with his
co…

HARRISBURG - Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane today
announced charges against three people in an ongoing investigation into
fentanyl-laced heroin that killed 22 in Western Pennsylvania last year. "My office created a task force with Westmoreland
Co…